The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-10

out through the heavens and baptize one
of the ether planets with the spirit of bat
tie and call it Mars, after the god Of war,
and we give to the eighth sign of the
zodiac the name of the scorpion, a
creature which is chiefly celebrated for
its deadly sting. But, after all, these
symbols are expressive of the way nation
faels toward nation. DiscOrd wide as the
continent and bridging the seas. l sup
pose you have noticed how warmly in
love dry goods stores are with other dry
goods stores, and how highly grocerymen
think of the sugars Of the grocerymen on
the same block. And in what eulogis-
tic way allopathic and homeopathic doc
tors speak OF each other, and how minis
ters viii sometimes put ministers Oh that
beautiful cooking instrument which the
English call a spit, an iron roller with
spikes on it, and turned by crank be-
fore q hot fire, and then, if the minister
being roasted cries out against it, the men
who are turning him say: 'Hush,
brother, we are turning this spit for the
glory of God and the good of your soul,
and you must be quiet while we close the
services with:
''Blest be the tie that binds
Our hears in Christian love"
The earth is diametered and circum-
ferenced with discord, and the music that
was rendered at the laying of the world
corner stone, when the morning stars sang
together, Is not heard now; and though
here and there, from this and that part
of society, and from this and that part of
the earth, there comes up a thrilling solo
Df ~ oOfx oct
duet of patience, they are drowned out
by discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says: ''The whole creation
groaneth, and while the nightingale,
| and the woodlarlz, and the canary, and
the plover sometimes sing SO sweetly that
their notes have been written out i'll musi-
cal notation, and it is found that the
cuckoo sings in the key of d, and that
, the cormorant is a bas5o in the winged
choir, yet spOrtsman's gun and the
autumnal blast often leave them ruffled
and bleeding, or dead in meadow or
forest. Paul was right, for the groan in
nature browns out the prima DOM IS of
the sky.
Tartini, the great musical con poser,
dreamed one night that he made con-
tract with Satan, the latter to be ever in
the composers service. But oIle night
he handed to Satan violin, en- which
Diabolus played such sweet music that
= the composer was awakened by the emo
! ton and tried to reproduce the sounds,
and thercfrom was written Tartini' most
famous piece, entitled the Devils So
nata," dream ingenious but faulty, for
all melody descends from heaven, and
only discOrds ascend from hell. All
hatreds, feuds, controversies, backbitings
and revenges are the devils sonata, are
diabolic fugue, are demoniac phantasy,
are grand march of doom, are allegro Of
pardition.
But if IN this world things in general
are out of tune to our frail ear, how much
more so to ears angelic and deifc. IL
takes a skilled artist fully to appreciate
disagreement OF sound. Many have no
capacity to detect 3 defect Of musical
execution, and, though there were in one
bar as many Offenses against harmony as
could crowd in between the lower F of
the bass and the higher G of the soprano,
It would give them no discomfort, while
on the forehead of the educated artist
beads of perspiration would stand out as
a result Of the narrowing dissonance.
While an amateur was performing ON g
piano and had Just struck the wrong
chord John Sebastian Bach, the i'm
mortal composer, entered the room, and
the amateur rose in embarrassment, and
Bach rushed past the host, who steppeo
forward to greet him, and before the
keyboard had stopped vibrating, pat his
adroit hand upon the keys and changed
the painful inharmony into glorious
cadence. Then Bach turned and gave
salutation to the host who had invited
him.
But the worst of all discords is mora
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordant to imperfect man
what must they be to a perfect God
People try to define what sin is. 1t seems
to me that sin is getting out Of harmony
with God, a disagreement with his holi
ness, with his purity, with his love
with his commands, our will clashing
with his WILL the finite dashing agains
the infinite the frail against the puissant
the created against the creator. II {
thousand musicians, with flute, an(
cornet-a-pisto and trumpet, and violon
cello. and hautboys, and trombone, anc
all the winged and stringed instruments
that ever gathered in a Dusseldorf Jubilee
should resolve that they would play Ou
of tune. and pat concord to the rack, anC
make the place wild with shrieiling, anC
grating, and rasping sounds, they coulC
not make such a pandemOnium as tina
which RACES in a sinful soul when Goo
listens to the play of its thoughts, pas
sions and emotiGns-all discord, lifelong
discord, maddening discord. The worle
pays more for discord than it does fo
consonance. High prices have beer
i, paid for music. One man gave 1925 t.
hear the Swedish songstress in New
York. and another $625 to hear her il
Boston, and another $3.50 to hear her il
, Providence. Fabulous prices have beel
paid for sweet sounds, but far more ha
been paid for discord. The Crimean wa
cost 81 700, 600, 200, and our American
civil war over 50, 500, 600, 900, and tn
y war de1ts of professed Christian nation
are about $15, coo, 600, 900, The wOrl
paws for this red ticket, which admits
to the saturnala of broken bones, an
: death agonies, and destroyed cities, an
plowed graves, and crushed hearts, an
, amount of money Satan asks. Discord
:. Discord!
, But I have to tell you that the son
that the morning stars sang together, !
- the laying Of tie world s corner stone,
to be resumed again. Mozart's creates
= overture was composed one night whc
s. he was several times overpowered wit
$ sleep, and artists say they can tell til
{ places IN the music where he was failin
@ asleep, and tho places where he avail
g ened. SO the overture Of the mOrnin
n stars, spoken of in my text, has bee
l. asleep, but it will awaken and be MOI
v graudly rendered by the evening stars {
j the worlds existence than by the mon
e ing stars, and the vespers will be sweett
q than the mathis. The work of all goc
|. men and women, and of all goc
II churches, and all reform associations
IS TO bring the race back to the or gin
t, ! ha.nlcay. The rebelious heart 70
j. attune3, social life to be attuned, con
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